Author Archives: Bryan P. Sears

OCEAN CITY — Maryland’s fledgling medical cannabis industry could open the door to entrepreneurs who would cater to highly regulated growers processors and dispensers, according to the chair of the Department of Business Management at Anne Arundel County Community College. ...

ANNAPOLIS — Students may be going to school later in Maryland, but school superintendents from around the state will find themselves trekking to the capital earlier to talk school construction. Gov. Larry Hogan Wednesday said school systems seeking funding for ...

Thousands of local government officials will descend on Ocean City for an annual meeting of the Maryland Association of Counties to talk policy, but it’s the politics that will have a lot of tongues wagging. Attendance for the annual summer conference ...

Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday he supports an effort to remove the statue of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney from the front lawn of the State House. Hogan, in a statement, said he will ask that a ...

BEL AIR — Some of the nearly 20 companies seeking to grow or process medical cannabis in Maryland run the risk of having their licenses rescinded by a state commission. Patrick Jameson, executive director of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission, ...

Concerns that an infestation of midges will spread into the northern Chesapeake Bay has Gov. Larry Hogan vowing to preemptively unleash the full fire and fury of the state’s agriculture department upon the pests. Hogan Tuesday issued an executive order that ...

Gov. Larry Hogan called on state’s attorneys from around Maryland to ramp up their prosecution of heroin dealers as part of a growing effort to address the heroin and opiate crisis. Hogan, appearing in St. Mary’s County for the announcement ...

Gov. Larry Hogan Tuesday said the state will move forward with plans to find a solution to sediment that has built up behind the Conowingo dam and is polluting the Chesapeake Bay. Hogan, in an announcement at the dam following a ...

Sen. Richard S. Madaleno, D-Montgomery County, called on first term Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to push back against Session's threat in the latest effort to tie Hogan and President Donald Trump together.